Board 8 > it's never too late in life to ask for anime recommendations

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i always figured JRPGs were enough anime in my life

but i've watched attack on titan and death note now and enjoyed them both

i have no idea what kinds of animes there are

i watched dragonball and dragonball z as a child and would not be interested in something like that now. way too slow and low-stakes

trails series rankings, probably: FC > Azure > Zero > SC > 3rd > CS3 > CS4 > CS1 > CS2

is that enough information to be able to recommend things to me? preferably on streaming platforms that normies have? or is this a huge ask

Bible Black
Nanoha A's

Baccano!

th3l3fty posted...

Baccano!

catesdb posted...

preferably on streaming platforms that normies have?

I think you failed this one lefty sorry

At any rate, Code Geass is on Crunchyroll, and seems like a good next thing to try.

catesdb posted...

is that enough information to be able to recommend things to me?

as if I was going to look at your tastes first regardless

Planetes
Vineland Saga

Anti-rec Bible Black lol

Cowboy Bebop is my standard recommendation

but which of these will make me a legit anime person the fastest

catesdb posted...

but which of these will make me a legit anime person the fastest

Bible Black

GenesisSaga posted...

Cowboy Bebop is my standard recommendation

i'm watching cowboy bebop only with my brother-in-law when we have downtime, we're like 6 or 7 episodes in but only get the chance to watch together every couple months

These aren't similar to AoT or Death Note, but they're some of my favorites that I think have wide appeal if you feel like branching out.

Akudama Drive- a sci-fi action series about criminals doing a heist
A Place Further than the Universe- a slice-of-life show about girls going to Antarctica
Hinamatsuri- a comedy about a psychic girl being looked after by a yakuza

okay i googled bible black

i don't think that's what i'm looking for

Hmm, I'd say some decent "gateway" series would include:

Cowboy Bebop
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Black Lagoon
Samurai Champloo

Pretty sure Bebop and Demon Slayer (at least the first two seasons and the movie between them) are on Netflix at least. idk about the others.

am i on a watchlist or something now

Yuyu Hakusho
Fate Stay Night: UBW

Clannad

SpyxFamily if you want family fun (and ootings)
Cowboy Bebop, Black Lagoon, and Gangsta. if you want different ways of Guns, bounty hunting, and (probably the word f*** somewhere)
Konosuba if you want fun (and explosions)
Madoka Magica if you want to feel depressed
Gankutsuou if you want to feel STYLISHLY depressed
PSYCHO-PASS if you want think tank melodrama, with a side of serial murder
Ghost in the Shell if you want think tank with...less series murder

Plenty to start with, with varying degrees of "I want to be happy, or I want shit to blow up and make me angry."

Re;zero
Darker than Black (not the second season)

i want to have something to think about

Fate/Zero maybe? Could see that backfiring but it's jrpg-esque and very popular.

Had a few others but I'll just also mention Haikyuu if you're looking for a sports anime

Honestly don't recommend fate zero before a proper intro to the world

Just imo as a sme on fate stuff. It's v good tho

Legend of the Galactic Heroes, if not my favourite media of all time, is almost surely in the top 3.

Don't let the cheesy title or ancient graphics put you off. It's an epic space opera where in the future humanity has been split into two factions in a constant struggle, a democracy and a monarchy. Really great characters and great writing, just a lot of fun.

I also loved DBZ, Attack on Titan and Death Note! But LotGH is certainly a very different kind of anime than them, but still can't recommend it enough. It should still be available on HiDive and they have a free trial offer but it's 110 episodes (which go by fast, trust me) so probably more than the trial could handle...

catesdb posted...

i want to have something to think about

Steins;Gate
Ghost in the Shell (again)

Reg posted...

I think you failed this one lefty sorry

"preferably" doesn't mean I can't say it!

Extremely surprised Steins;Gate hasn't been said, that's typically one of the first recs these topics get.

Baccano is the obvious one for me, but yeah can't stream it. However you also can't buy it new physically, so it's morally OK to pirate!

Names can only go so far so I'll post some trailers of my strongest recommendations.

The Trails list does not help because all of the Trails anime are terrible, and anime that are similar to Trails tend to be bad in general lol.

https://youtu.be/-pc4Wfh4WNw?si=46rwLM237a5b-AAz

https://youtu.be/EunfWKyWxvc?si=pXKAk2vHmh-TaqpE

https://youtu.be/2RzX-uQE1Yg?si=GVh2QRXDtsI6IY8x

https://youtu.be/-JTjs4e_UQs?si=3B7UBWGdf0UlMDve

https://youtu.be/YzuJnyebc40?si=L-XlSJPIHPK4rTj5

https://youtu.be/z1ot-1HWJ6A?si=ACZ8r6T4gwtBO6nE

Trying not to just dump too much. This is a solid block that I think would appeal to what youre looking for. There are shows I would ranks above some of these and dozens more I could list, but theres little point in drowning you with choice.

I will also make a recommendation to you for Hunter x Hunter. While this is another long, sometimes intentionally slow Shounen like DBZ, it avoids almost all the trapping I think youd have issue with, and is tropically considered the gold standard for the genre nowadays.

https://youtu.be/3k2tl78bfjk?si=im7rMXOEiiuS3DZQ

Oh of course someone says Steins;Gate while I'm typing the message lol.

The fuck is HiDive

Anyway my rec is FMA:B of course.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Oh of course someone says Steins;Gate while I'm typing the message lol.

The reason I didn't include it in my first post is idk if someone new to anime might bounce off the first 6 or so episodes

But with the added prompt of "something to think about" I decided to mention it.

Waluigi1 posted...

The fuck is HiDive

Anyway my rec is FMA:B of course.

www.hidive.com ? It's got the exclusive LotGH streaming rights iirc.

Oh FMA:B and Monster definitely round out my anime Top 3, great reco there.

Blade of the Immortal (the one on prime video)

oh yeah i think all of Aria the Animation/Natural/Origination is on prime video too (not sure if the more recent ovas/movies are there tho but they're not that connected anyway)

Evangelion and Death(true)2 and End of Evangelion on netflix

i think One Piece is also on netflix and not just the live action one

if you do the hidive trial i also rec Revue Starlight but like at that point you might as well just check out crunchyroll or funimation instead since it is absolutely just an anime-specific streaming service like them and it gets a lot less shows than them (it does have a lot of worthwhile ones though). I think they also have exclusive rights to VOTOMS which i would definitely recommend to anyone that enjoys legend of the galactic heroes

don't watch steins;gate play it tbh

my recs aren't like "this is complex and you will need to think over it often to understand" but they've got some pretty interesting and well-thought-out themes that make your mind feel engaged

HiDive is the Sentai Filmworks based service I think. I don't use it (because they never had Playstation apps for some weird reason).

actually checking hidive's list of shows a lot more of them are fully worth watching imo than i realised. they've got a little over 250 series listed now (though some are just separate seasons) and i'd say honestly about 4 in 5 of them are worth watching. their movie section (with close to a hundred entries) mostly has OVA series in it, lots of neat underappreciated stuff i'm a fan of there too, had no idea they had them (eg. kaiju girls black, kase-san and morning glories, laidbackers, the penguindrum movies, the revue starlight movie, the kinmoza movie and ova, non non biyori vacation, the yuki yuna chibi spinoff, alice or alice... anti-rec to stuff like the magnificent kotobuki movie and the three initial d films they have since those are vastly inferior recap films)

honestly i'm tempted to renew my subscription there now lol

Ohh ok it's an anime service. Guess that's why I've never heard of it. Definitely not among "streaming platforms that normies have" lol

watching some of these trailers

steins;gate looks nonsensical but maybe it makes more sense in the show, i could be into it

i can't tell what kind of show baccano is

re;zero looks too stupid

i'm not sure what the premise of fate:zero is, is it like they time machined a bunch of people from different time periods to do a hunger games type thing, but for the holy grail??

planetes looks like a workplace dramedy

Monster is on Netflix, if you havent seen it yet.

UF8 posted...

hidive

I've been meaning to watch the revue starlight movie, I should have known that hidive has it. Thanks for the reminder.

Run With the Wind is my pick for sports anime but you can't go wrong with Haikyuu! either.

Fate zero is more like reincarnations of historical/mythological figures in contained war for holy grail

Code Geass
Madoka
Angel Blade
One Punch Man
TTGL
Viper GTS
Fate Zero
Steins Gate

All fairly accessible (entry level) and feels very anime in the sense that there's a ton of shit happening and twists and turns and characters monologuing and overdramatic fun.

Anti rec Bible Black

planetes is great. not super "anime" by @katee's definition though

Baccano!

Always Baccano!

The problem is finding it

I don't watch a lot of series but I can rec some anime movies.

Redline
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Paprika
Summer Wars

Parasyte is one of my favs that isn't recommended often. It's a lot like Death Note in style but more of a philosophical theme. The anime is really well written compared to the manga. (Unlike most anime where the manga is far superior, including Death Note which I highly recommend you to read.)

JoJo season 1 is super good for another shonen, and one of the best seasons of TV you can watch. Anti-rec season 2 and beyond though. They're fine but there's better things to watch.

One Punch Man season 1 is absolutely flawless, and a good follow up to the humor of JoJo. It really requires you to know the tropes of shonen though.

Cells At Work is another fav that's super fun and has real character. It's kinda like OPM where it uses shonen tropes and humor, but also has a surprising amount of emotion. And it's genuinely educational.

Also I'll anti-rec Madoka and Psycho Pass. You need to be wayyyyy deeper into anime to give the flaws in those a pass. Also there's so many 1-season shows you really don't need to start on the 20-season shows until much later tbh.

devilman crybaby for the exact opposite of the other shows i said

I don't know that I'd recommend them in this context either but I watched both Madoka and Psycho Pass within the first year of my watching anime and enjoyed both.

Yeah I really don't see the issue with Psycho Pass or Madoka.

I guess maybe the aesthetic of Madoka could be off putting, but that typically isn't an issue for long.

86 Eighty-Six

As far as streamable options go;

Lupin the Third: Part IV, V, VI, The Woman Called Fujiko No one

Kaiji

Monster

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Yeah I really don't see the issue with Psycho Pass or Madoka.

Mostly for Psycho Pass, writing is really bad. But maybe less exposure to anime actually makes that better. But if you've read or seen any similar story before (there's a ton) you'll prob be disappointed.

But Madoka is like OPM where you need to know the genre for it to make sense.